So I'm the Captain of a Union gunboat and will write a detailed report about an old man on the riverbank capturing my boat single-handed, or my Commanding Officer will write such a report.
I seriously doubt every incident during the war made it to the OR.So this is another one of those claims that just because there is no evidence, doesn't mean it wasn't true.So I'm the Captain of a Union gunboat and will write a detailed report about an old man on the riverbank capturing my boat single-handed, or my Commanding Officer will write such a report.
Guess what - if the vessel was "captured" somebody would write about it - at least in a real Navy.So I'm the Captain of a Union gunboat and will write a detailed report about an old man on the riverbank capturing my ship single-handed??? Then I'd expect a Commendation from Gideon Wells almost anytime.
Please find quote by me or anyone else stating that Jack Hinson didn't exist or never sniped anybody.
I went through the LOC newspapers and found one reference to a John Hinson in Tennessee, and it had to do with chancery court.
I read the McKenney book in November and I recall some part of him saying Jack "waited" to see if the guy was dead (I couldn't find it, but stuff about notches I did find were on pages 277 and 292-293). Of course, the victim of a nonlethal gunshot wound doesn't automatically get up and treat his wound like a cut. In other words, how do we know they were dead?
Read the thread you posted! You said he didn't 36. You said none were in the ORs.
Clearly I said he at least shot or killed 36 (I erroneously said 37).
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How'd he know it was an old man?So I'm the Captain of a Union gunboat and will write a detailed report about an old man on the riverbank capturing my boat single-handed, or my Commanding Officer will write such a report.
I was making a facetious remark. Maybe we all could use some "reading compression"
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"The result of 15 years of scholarship, this meticulously researched work is the only account of Hinson's life ever recorded and involves an unbelievable cast of characters, including the Earp brothers, Jesse James, and Nathan Bedford Forrest".
Do you know what his "research" was? There's a CWT member who has met the author and discussed his "research" with him. That member has posted about the "research". Let's just say that if he spent 15 years doing that level of research he's in the wrong line of work.
You're going to rely on one of the most biased members on here to discount someone else. Pretty Rich.
Let's see if we have this straight. You're claiming that another member is "biased". Now that is really rich. The same poster who said that Old Jack didn't kill enough "Yankees".
Family folklore is not infallible. There's a legend on my mother's side about a Union colonel I have found no evidence of, so it's probably not true. I have not written a book on it.
I'm assuming you're not going to acknowledge McKenney made up stuff?
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